Monthly Archives: March 2012

You may have heard these terms used for various programming languages before, but I wanted to discuss them in a bit more detail since they’re a fairly fundamental concept in compilers that spill over into the way you use the … Continue reading →

Sorry about the distinct lack of content lately, but I’ve been busy putting together a new training initiative for my day job. This initiative involves sending weekly snippets of information on C and C++ to many of our developers. The … Continue reading →

One thing which I am pretty religious about is the placement of ++ and — in an expression. You have two options for where it can go. If it goes before the operand, it’s a pre-increment/decrement. If it goes after … Continue reading →

Who

Aaron Ballman is a software engineer for GrammaTech. He has almost two decades of experience writing cross-platform frameworks in C/C++, compiler & language design, and software engineering best practices and is currently a voting member of the C (WG14) and C++ (WG21) standards committees.

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